Candles burn near the Schemengees Bar and Grille in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. LEWISTON, Maine — Police teams had already searched a recycling center in Maine twice before eventually finding the body of the man suspected of killing 18 people in Lewiston was found, authorities said Saturday.
The 40-year-old Card of Bowdoin — a firearms instructor who grew up in the area — was suspected of also injuring 13 people during a shooting rampage at a bowling alley and bar on Wednesday night in Lewiston.“Like many people I’m breathing a sigh of relief tonight knowing that Robert Card is no longer a threat to anyone,” Mills said.
Whitney Pelletier hung a hand-drawn “Lewiston Strong” sign in the glass door of her downtown cafe, Forage, on Saturday morning.“Last night when they found his body, I think the fear that I had been holding onto just living in downtown Lewiston was replaced with sadness,” she said.The deadliest shootings in Maine history stunned a state of 1.3 million people that has relatively little violent crime and had only 29 killings in all of 2022.
A Maine state trooper guards the entrance to a recycling facility where law enforcement found the body of Robert Card, the suspect in this week's mass shootings, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, in Lisbon Falls, Maine. Card was wanted for the shooting deaths of 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday. after he began acting erratically during training, a U.S. official told the AP.